ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,132, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Automotive parts deployment system" was invented by Kerry Lance Paskell (Detroit), Jason Michael Moore (Clinton Township, Mich.) and Alex Turkai (Ypsilanti, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic parts delivery system includes a controller, fleets of robots, an autonomous storage-retrieval system and workstations. The controller monitors inventory state of automotive parts during a selected block of time and identifies unavailability of parts for manufacturing a selected vehicle model. The controller determines whether remaining parts ...